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Suspense!

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Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Mr. Robert Taylor in Four Hours to Kill, a

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suspense play produced and edited by William Spear.

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Oh there, Mr. Wilcox, I am J. Hammock Macbeth of the Legitimate Theatre.

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I've just been signed to announce a new show.

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Relax.

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Of course, I might begin thusly.

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To be or not to be, that is the question.

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Remember, you're always right with auto light.

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And now with four hours to kill and the performance of Mr. Robert Taylor, auto light

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hopes once again to keep you in suspense.

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So you want to know what's the matter, what's wrong with me?

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Okay, sit down on that bench over there.

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Make yourself comfortable because this takes a while to tell and I want to get it all

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off my chest.

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You know, now that it's over, I can look back and see everything in perspective.

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Clear back to the days when my brother Walter and I were kids in Vermont.

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And I can see now that my life's divided into two halves.

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The first 34 years and the last four hours.

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Yeah, four hours ago I was standing at the big front door of the Bachelors Club on my

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way up to see Walter for the first time in five years.

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I knew it was going to be tough, but things had changed since the last time we were

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together.

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Walter had arrived now.

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He was the kind of New York lawyer who divides his time between the front page and the

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society section.

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I was just still a newspaper bum.

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The competition between us was over and I was hoping that now with the numbers up on

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the scoreboard for everyone to see, Walter might let down a little.

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Decide he could afford to call off whatever it was that had set us at each other's

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throats from the beginning.

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Anyway, that's what I hoped.

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As I said, I knew it would be tough.

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Asking Walter for anything was always tough.

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Well, I finally swallowed what pride I had left and walked into the lobby.

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At the desk next to the stairway, the clerk was in the huddle with a bell ringing.

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It's one of those clubs where you're supposed to put a call through the desk before

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going upstairs.

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I stood around waiting for a minute, then figured it might be better if Walter didn't

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know I was coming, so I walked past them.

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They didn't even see me.

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The guy nails me.

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I ain't that with all seven courses.

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So I said to myself, okay, so the guy's got a load of martinis.

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Well, you know, I'd call him for you, but his phone's tied up.

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Well, I'll tell you one thing, Larry.

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Starting tomorrow, someone else is going to take care of Walter.

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So it was Walter with a load of martinis.

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He should have stopped right there and turned around and walked out.

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I'm not the exit queue, but I'm up here.

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Well, nothing can change that now.

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Anyway, I walked on up to the second floor and down the hall to 206.

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Well, it's about time you got here.

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Well, I...

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Hello, Walter.

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Theodore.

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That's right.

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Big Brother Theodore.

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Well, come on in.

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You're just in time for dinner.

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The boy will be up in a minute.

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No, no, thanks, Walter.

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I haven't got too much time.

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You mean you're turning down a free meal?

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Look, let's forget that stuff, shall we?

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We're grown up now.

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There's no point...

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Sure, sure.

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Sit down.

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No, I won't be too long.

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Tell me, Ted, how are things on the paper in Buffalo?

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Okay, I guess.

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I quit yesterday.

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Oh, you quit?

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Yeah.

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Not fired, you quit.

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That's what I said.

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So, now you're out of a job and you figure that I'll...

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Wait a minute, Walter.

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Let me tell you all of it.

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There's a guy I met in the service, Dan Allenby.

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He's down in Florida now, Fort Lauderdale.

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Look, here's a letter I got from him.

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He's buying a paper there, a little country sheet, eight pages, twice a week.

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He wants me to go in with him.

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It's nothing big, Walter, but it's the kind of thing I've been looking for for years.

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We can do something down there.

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The place is growing.

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We can double the circulation in six months.

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Dan's got all kinds of ideas and so have I.

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He says that...

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What's the matter?

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Eh?

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What's so funny?

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You.

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I don't get it.

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All right, how much, Ted?

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The price was 10,000. I'll need half of it.

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5,000 bucks.

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That's right.

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Same song, 82nd verse.

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I'm not begging, Walter.

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What is it then?

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I'm asking you for a loan. I'll sign a note.

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Well, what about it?

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What happened to your pride, Ted?

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I thought we agreed to forget all...

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I didn't agree to anything.

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You not only lost what pride you had, you haven't even got any good sense.

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Okay, Walter, that answers my question.

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It's good for a laugh, though.

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Big Brother Theodore crawling up on his belly.

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Shut up, Walter.

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5,000 bucks. You thought I'd just hand it over.

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I said shut up.

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Hey, let go of me.

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I've had all of you I'm gonna take.

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You hear that, Walter? I've had all...

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Let go of me.

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Okay, Walter.

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Okay.

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You've had that coming for a long time, Walter.

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Yeah, you're right. I was stupid thinking you'd...

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Now get up.

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Come on, Walter, get up. I won't bother you anymore.

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I...

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Walter.

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Walter!

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I saw it when I turned him over.

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A stream of blood oozing out of his right temple where he'd hit his head on the corner of the hearth.

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No pulse.

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No breath.

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Walter was dead.

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In a spot like that, you don't think. You move.

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No one knew I was in New York.

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I was sure the clerk and the bellboy hadn't seen me cross the lobby.

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If I could get out without being spotted, I had a chance.

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I picked up the letters from Allenby, went to the door and put my handkerchief over the knob.

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Turned back to give the room a last look before I left.

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That's when I saw it.

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The telephone receiver was off the hook.

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I remember I looked down at it like it was a poisonous snake or something.

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Started to hang it up, then changed my mind.

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Uh, hello?

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Walter?

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Yeah, yeah, this is Walter.

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Really?

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Sorry, I kept you waiting so long.

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Wait a minute. Let's have an understanding right now.

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When I want a good newspaper man, I'll call you.

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When I want impersonations, I'll go see the floor show at Leon and Eddie's.

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Why don't you call your brother and tell him I'm getting tired of holding this telephone.

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Who, who will I say is calling?

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He knows. I made that pretty clear just before you barged into his apartment.

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What makes you think I barged in?

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Just a guess. Am I warm?

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Not very.

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From this end, the dialogue sounded more like a Donnybrook than a pink tee.

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Well, look, let's not go into...

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Oh, don't apologize, Theodore.

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Walter's a Class A heel. He had it coming.

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Now, go pick him up off the floor or wherever you left him and bring him to the phone.

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Well, he's out of the apartment right now. Why don't you just give me your name and number and I'll...

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He already has it. I gave it to him a year ago in a moment of weakness.

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Um, tell him I'll call him back in an hour or so when he's better into the talk.

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Hold it, hold it a minute.

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You're dinner, Mr. Pomeroy.

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Uh, listen, Walter won't be back till late tonight.

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You'd better call him at his office in the morning. You got that?

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Yes, but he wants...

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Mr. Pomeroy?

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If I'd had any sense, I'd have given up right then with the bellboy pounding on the door,

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with that girl on the phone who could send me to the chair with a word.

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But as I said in a spot like that, you don't think something else takes over.

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You wouldn't there, Mr. Pomeroy?

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I had to get my hands on that girl.

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I knew he'd have her number written down somewhere.

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There was nothing on the telephone stand, nothing in the drawers,

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but a couple of bridge score pads and some other junk.

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I wiped the knobs of the handkerchief and turned back to Walter,

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began searching his pockets.

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The bellboy was raffling some keys outside when I found it,

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a little brown leather-covered book with some names and numbers in it.

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I jumped toward the door, slid behind it just as it opened.

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Mr. Pomeroy, I knocked and I thought...

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Holy cow!

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Larry! Larry! Larry!

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The minute he turned the corner, I took off to the back stairway.

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The pack was beginning to howl up front when I left with the rear door,

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still unseen, safe, except for that girl.

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Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Robert Taylor in four hours to kill.

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Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theatre of thrills, Suspense.

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Be here, Wilkart. You must let me try again.

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Okay, Hamhawk, you're on.

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Something from Richard, perhaps. I was great as Richard III.

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Is this a dagger which I can use to cut off the

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radio and television? Is this a dagger which I see before me?

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Remember, you're always right with Auto Light.

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And now Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage,

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our star Robert Taylor in Four Hours to Kill.

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A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense.

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I started across town toward Fifth Avenue, walking slowly,

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letting the cold night air work on my face.

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By now, the call was into headquarters and a power car was on the way.

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In a half hour, the homicide men would be there with the police photographers.

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By nine, the story would be into the morning papers.

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They'd be out around midnight. Walter was front page stuff.

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And that girl who'd heard it all on the phone, she'd be able to read the headlines.

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And once she added it up, I was through.

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I had four hours to find her.

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Then, somehow, somewhere, I knew I had to kill her.

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I found a phone booth in a Fifth Avenue drug store and took out the memo book.

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He'd scribbled first names and phone numbers on four or five pages.

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The rest of it was blank. No addresses, nothing else to go on.

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About a dozen of them belonged to women.

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So I started on number one, Anna Lee at a Murray Hill number.

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Hello?

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Is this Murray Hill 4-1-1-2-1?

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That's right.

250
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Is Joanne there, please?

251
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Joanne? I'm sorry, I don't know any Joanne. You must have the wrong number.

252
00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:07,000
Are you sure?

253
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I guess I'd better check it again. I'm sorry.

254
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No, Louise, this isn't him. If you're that guy who's been calling, let me tell you right now...

255
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You say you're making a survey?

256
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Well, my little old head isn't much good at figures, but I'll surely be glad to help you all. I...

257
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Hello?

258
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Is this Maxine?

259
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That's right. Who's this?

260
00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,000
Didn't I talk to you a little while ago?

261
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Who? Oh, don't tell me it's Cedar.

262
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Megated, will you?

263
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Oh, we're real friendly now.

264
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Well, I hope so.

265
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I see. And you make a habit of hanging up on people's faces.

266
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We were cut off, Angel, and you were so snide about giving me your name, I couldn't call you back.

267
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So you went out and bought yourself a crystal ball...

268
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No, no. I just called up every girl in Walters' telephone index until you answered.

269
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Why'd you do that?

270
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Because I want to see if the girl is as nice as the voice.

271
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How do you blush or default?

272
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Look, why don't you save us both a lot of trouble by telling me where I can meet you?

273
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I'd rather keep it this way.

274
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I can be pretty persistent.

275
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I can be pretty stubborn.

276
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One Pomeroy is about all I can cope with at a time.

277
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I'm awfully sorry, Theodore, but I have to...

278
00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:34,000
Wait a minute. What's that music? The radio?

279
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No, it's not the radio. And please don't bother me.

280
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You're a nice boy, but I'm too busy writing out a play game.

281
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Look, you've got to at least give me your last name, Maxine.

282
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Not tonight, Theodore. Some other time.

283
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But wait...

284
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I'm sorry, pal. You forced me to do this.

285
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Maxine, wait a minute.

286
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I'm sorry.

287
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Information.

288
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Would you tell me if you have a party by the name of Thomas P. Sherman at Plaza 22376?

289
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Thomas P. Sherman. S-H-E-R-M-A-N...

290
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That's right. Plaza 22376.

291
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One moment, please.

292
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I looked at my watch.

293
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It was 10 o'clock. I could close my eyes and see that hotel room now.

294
00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:22,000
Jammed with the boys from the police, Pete.

295
00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:24,000
Crowding around the medical examiner, grabbing for the phone,

296
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shooting questions at the lieutenant in charge.

297
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Hello, sir.

298
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Yes?

299
00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:33,000
We have no record of a Thomas P. Sherman at Plaza 22376.

300
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Oh, well, who is listed at that number?

301
00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:39,000
I'm sorry, sir. We do not give that information.

302
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What about the address of the number?

303
00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:42,000
I'm sorry, sir. We do not...

304
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Look, I've got to have it, operator. It's very urgent.

305
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One moment. I'll connect you with the supervisor.

306
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No, no. No, skiv it.

307
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I started to get panicky then.

308
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Got a lot of wild ideas about running, grabbing the next plane for anywhere.

309
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But I fought it down.

310
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I'd been a reporter long enough to know what happens to guys who run.

311
00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:05,000
I had to get that girl.

312
00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:07,000
I had to.

313
00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:09,000
Yeah?

314
00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:11,000
You're through with the phone?

315
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Yeah, yeah. Go ahead.

316
00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:15,000
Oh, thanks, pal. I got to get a hold of the little woman, you know.

317
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The more I explain to her now, the less I'll have to do when I do get home.

318
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Boy, they're sure going all out in that Legion parade, ain't they?

319
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Yeah, yeah.

320
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Parade?

321
00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:32,000
Excuse me.

322
00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:33,000
Yeah, sure. What's the matter?

323
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What was that you said about a parade?

324
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Legion parade coming up Fifth Avenue.

325
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Cross town traffic is tied up for two hours.

326
00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:40,000
Coming by here?

327
00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,000
Yeah, the band is down the street now.

328
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Band? That's what I heard.

329
00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:45,000
Huh?

330
00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:47,000
Nothing. Thanks a lot.

331
00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:56,000
Crowds were lining the curbs outside.

332
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Down the avenue, somewhere around 78th Street,

333
00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:02,000
I could hear the band at the head of the parade marching toward us.

334
00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:04,000
The same band I'd heard over her telephone,

335
00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:06,000
passing so close it almost covered her voice.

336
00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:09,000
She was on a low floor next to the street.

337
00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:12,000
And the band had passed her at exactly one minute to nine.

338
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I remembered looking at my watch.

339
00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:17,000
I stood there and waited for the band.

340
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It was a wild idea, but I had a feeling if I figured it carefully,

341
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I could come pretty close.

342
00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:28,000
I walked a block with the band, then another one to make sure.

343
00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:31,000
It took them a minute and 20 seconds to cover a block.

344
00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:34,000
We hit 84th Street at 16 minutes and 20 seconds past nine.

345
00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:38,000
They'd covered exactly 13 blocks since they passed her telephone.

346
00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:42,000
That made it somewhere around 71st Street, on a ground floor.

347
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An apartment, maybe a residential hotel facing Central Park.

348
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I turned and started running back down Fifth Avenue.

349
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I was getting close.

350
00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:56,000
And there were still two hours before the morning papers hit the street.

351
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In the next hour and a half, I checked Fifth Avenue for two blocks

352
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on either side of 71st, going over name plates and apartment doorways.

353
00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:09,000
There were two Maxines.

354
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I talked to one on the house phone.

355
00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:13,000
She must have been 70.

356
00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:15,000
And met the other one face to face, a hatchet-faced character

357
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who didn't appreciate being gotten out of bed by a drunk

358
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who had the wrong apartment.

359
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That left only one possibility,

360
00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:23,000
a residential hotel in the middle of the block.

361
00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:25,000
I decided I'd try calling her again.

362
00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:29,000
Walked past the cigar stand in the lobby to her old phone booths at the rear.

363
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It was 10 minutes to 11.

364
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Time was running out.

365
00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:46,000
Hello.

366
00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:48,000
Hello, Maxine.

367
00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:50,000
Here we go again.

368
00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:52,000
What is it this time, Theodore?

369
00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:54,000
Well, I'm still trying to wear you down.

370
00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:55,000
Because you like my voice.

371
00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:56,000
Right.

372
00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:57,000
You think I'm charming.

373
00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:58,000
Practically irresistible.

374
00:18:58,000 --> 00:18:59,000
Right. And another thing.

375
00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:00,000
What?

376
00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:03,000
I think you live in the Grayson Arms on Fifth Avenue.

377
00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:04,000
Wrong.

378
00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:06,000
I live on the other side of town.

379
00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:08,000
Wait now. Be honest with me, Angel.

380
00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:10,000
Hold it a second, will you?

381
00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:11,000
She was lying.

382
00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:13,000
She knew what it was all about and was playing with me.

383
00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:15,000
The panic came back.

384
00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:18,000
I looked across the marble floor of the lobby toward the cigar stand.

385
00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:20,000
A customer was standing there.

386
00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:23,000
A girl had appeared behind the counter to wait on him.

387
00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:25,000
Then he left and another guy came in.

388
00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,000
My heart stopped.

389
00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:30,000
It was the distributor with a bundle of morning papers.

390
00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:31,000
Hi, Eddie.

391
00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:32,000
Hiya.

392
00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:33,000
Are you ready to fold?

393
00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:34,000
Mm-hmm.

394
00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:35,000
Leave them on the counter.

395
00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:36,000
Okay.

396
00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:37,000
Bye.

397
00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:38,000
Bye.

398
00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:40,000
My mind was paralyzed.

399
00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:41,000
It didn't sink in.

400
00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:44,000
Not even when I saw the girl turn away and pick up the phone.

401
00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:45,000
Now, let's see.

402
00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:47,000
Where were we, Theodore?

403
00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:50,000
You were stringing me along about living on the other side of town.

404
00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:52,000
Listen, Maxine, you've got to...

405
00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:53,000
Hello?

406
00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:55,000
Teddy, you there?

407
00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:57,000
Yeah, sorry.

408
00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:59,000
Maxine, have you got the time?

409
00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:01,000
Oh, just a second.

410
00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:04,000
I saw the girl put down the phone, hold her watch up toward the light.

411
00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:05,000
Five to 11.

412
00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:06,000
When are you through work?

413
00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:08,000
Right now.

414
00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:09,000
Wait.

415
00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:11,000
How'd you know I was working?

416
00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,000
Stay put for a minute and I'll tell you.

417
00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:14,000
Ted!

418
00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:17,000
Ted, what do you mean, stay put a minute?

419
00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:18,000
Hello.

420
00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:20,000
I'll be right with you, sir.

421
00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:22,000
Hang on, Ted.

422
00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:23,000
Yes, sir.

423
00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:25,000
Package of those, huh?

424
00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:28,000
Yes, sir.

425
00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:31,000
1825, thanks.

426
00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:34,000
Anything else?

427
00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:35,000
That's up to you.

428
00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:36,000
Oh, now look...

429
00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:37,000
Wait a minute.

430
00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:40,000
I told you I was the persistent type.

431
00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:42,000
What?

432
00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:43,000
You're Ted!

433
00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:45,000
Disappointed?

434
00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:48,000
Not exactly.

435
00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:49,000
How did you find me?

436
00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:51,000
I was calling from the booth over there.

437
00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:54,000
But how did you find this place?

438
00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:55,000
My crystal ball.

439
00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:58,000
You ought to get yourself a booth at the county fair.

440
00:20:58,000 --> 00:20:59,000
You'd make a fortune.

441
00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:01,000
It's only a sideline.

442
00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:03,000
Do you really live across town?

443
00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:06,000
Worst looking brownstone on 75th.

444
00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:07,000
But it's home.

445
00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:09,000
Good, then I can walk you home.

446
00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:12,000
Well, they won't like this.

447
00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:14,000
They won't mind.

448
00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:17,000
Okay, Theodore, I'm whipped.

449
00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:18,000
Let me lock up and get my things.

450
00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:22,000
I'll be with you in a minute.

451
00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:24,000
I waited while she shut things down,

452
00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:26,000
threw a tweed coat over his shoulders,

453
00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:29,000
put a blue felt hat with a feather in it on the back of her head.

454
00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:31,000
Face matched the voice.

455
00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:35,000
Dark hair, wide-set blue eyes with laugh wrinkles at the corners.

456
00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,000
I wasn't thinking about that then.

457
00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,000
I was thinking what a break it was she lived across town

458
00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:44,000
on the other side of Central Park.

459
00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:45,000
Ted?

460
00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:46,000
Huh?

461
00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:47,000
Mind if I mention something?

462
00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:48,000
No, go ahead.

463
00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:50,000
We're going the wrong way.

464
00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,000
Main path across the park is down there.

465
00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:53,000
Yeah, I know.

466
00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,000
I just don't want to meet any cops.

467
00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:58,000
The park's closed after nightfall, you know.

468
00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,000
You don't mind?

469
00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:03,000
No, I don't mind.

470
00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:06,000
At the last minute, she grabbed a paper off the pile,

471
00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,000
folded it and stuck it in her pocket without looking at it.

472
00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:10,000
We turned into a dark byway.

473
00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:12,000
She moved closer and took my arm.

474
00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:16,000
The paper pressed against me like a hot branding iron in my side.

475
00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:18,000
My heart was pounding now.

476
00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,000
There was a choking lump in my throat.

477
00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:23,000
I hardly dared to talk.

478
00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:25,000
I...

479
00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:28,000
I'm sorry I gave you such a bad time tonight, Ted.

480
00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,000
Forget it.

481
00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:33,000
I guess I thought you'd be different.

482
00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:35,000
More like your brother.

483
00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:40,000
Why are we stopping?

484
00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:42,000
Why did you do it?

485
00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,000
What do you mean?

486
00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,000
You can let your hair down.

487
00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:47,000
Walter can't hear us.

488
00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,000
Why did I do what?

489
00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:51,000
You mean you do this every night?

490
00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:52,000
Huh?

491
00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,000
Call up strange women,

492
00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:57,000
tell them you've fallen in love with their voices.

493
00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,000
Oh.

494
00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:01,000
Well, let's not talk about that now.

495
00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,000
I don't get it, Ted.

496
00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:04,000
Look, I'll tell you later.

497
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,000
Never mind.

498
00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,000
I just thought it was worth mentioning.

499
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,000
I guess I was wrong.

500
00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:12,000
Night, Ted.

501
00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,000
I can make it the rest of the way alone.

502
00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:15,000
No, no, wait.

503
00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:16,000
I mean it.

504
00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:17,000
Let go of me.

505
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:18,000
Quiet, Maxina.

506
00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:19,000
The cop will hear us.

507
00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:21,000
I don't care.

508
00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,000
Hey!

509
00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:29,000
Anyone up there?

510
00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:32,000
I held her tight, my lips hard against hers.

511
00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:36,000
I heard the cop walk by on the main path 50 feet away.

512
00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,000
There in that dark body.

513
00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,000
I could have done it.

514
00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:42,000
Ten seconds, maybe 20, and it would be over.

515
00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:44,000
I'd be free.

516
00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,000
But I discovered something else.

517
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As I felt her respond, felt her arms tighten around me.

518
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I said it before, back in that room with Walter's body at my feet.

519
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I stopped thinking.

520
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Something else took over.

521
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I was like an animal, fighting for life, going on nerve and instinct.

522
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But there in that black pathway in the park,

523
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I began to think again like a human being.

524
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And I knew that whatever it is that's born into a murderer

525
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wasn't in me.

526
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Love her or hate her,

527
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I could no more murder this girl in cold blood than I could fly to the moon.

528
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Well, here's the 8th Avenue entrance.

529
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Yeah.

530
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Why don't you tell me, Ted, something's tearing it to pieces.

531
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I can see it.

532
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Okay.

533
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You've got a morning paper in your coat pocket.

534
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Take a look at it.

535
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Paper?

536
00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:44,000
What's that got to do with...

537
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Here, give it to me.

538
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Page 1, I knew it.

539
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Lawyer attacked in city apartment.

540
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Walter.

541
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Yeah.

542
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You ask me, here it is.

543
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New York, January 18th.

544
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Bruised and bleeding after an attack by a mysterious visitor

545
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into his rooms at the bachelor's club early last night.

546
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Walter Pomeroy...

547
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Wait a minute.

548
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Go on.

549
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Walter Pomeroy, noted criminal lawyer,

550
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still refused to disclose the identity of his assailant.

551
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Dr. James Penrose, attending physician,

552
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said Pomeroy suffered a possible concussion

553
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from a severe blow on the head,

554
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but was otherwise progressing nicely

555
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and would be released from city hospital in 24 hours.

556
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The attack came at...

557
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Good Lord.

558
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Severe blow on the head.

559
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Yeah, he fell.

560
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Listen.

561
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Listen, Maxine, this...

562
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This doesn't tell at all. There's something else.

563
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Then what is it?

564
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What is the matter?

565
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Okay.

566
00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:46,000
So you want to know what's the matter?

567
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,000
What's wrong with me?

568
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,000
Okay, sit down on that bench there.

569
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:53,000
Make yourself comfortable, because this takes a while to tell.

570
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And that's it. That's what's wrong.

571
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I wanted you to know all of it, because...

572
00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,000
Well, you're important to me now.

573
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Maybe more important than anything else in the world.

574
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You can check out if you want to.

575
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:12,000
It's nothing a cup of coffee won't cure.

576
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I'm sorry.

577
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I'm sorry.

578
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,000
I'm sorry.

579
00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,000
I'm sorry.

580
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:24,000
It's nothing a cup of coffee won't cure.

581
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,000
Oh, Maxine.

582
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:29,000
There's an all-night stand around the corner.

583
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,000
I've got 20 cents.

584
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I believe we rate at least 10 curtain calls.

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